A crowd had already surged forward, surrounding him and shaking his slender arms with force.,However, this was also an era of serious social problems. In the south, there was the threat of Japanese pirates, in the north, the Mongol invasion, and natural and man-made disasters plagued the land. Although Emperor Jiajing was a wise ruler, he squandered the national treasury on Taoist practices, leaving the country in a precarious state.,It wasn't because the sky was getting dark, but he...his stomach rumbled again.。